Lake Oroville Power Plant Restarts After Being Shut Down Due To Drought

OROVILLE (CBS13) — The powerfulness works astatine Lake Oroville is starting backmost up.

Levels successful the water had been truthful debased that past August, the powerfulness works was taken offline.

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On Tuesday, the California Department of Water Resources announced that the caller storms person brought the h2o level precocious capable to restart the powerfulness plant.

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Operations are starting dilatory due to the fact that they don’t privation to fto excessively overmuch h2o out. Officials accidental the powerfulness works is lone generating 30 megawatts.

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More powerfulness is expected to beryllium generated arsenic water levels rise.

CBS13 Staff